Some All-Time Favorites

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer egan

James by Percival Everett

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Bookkeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Green Road by Anne Eright

When All Is Said By Anne Griffin

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Some Ironic, Strange, Brilliant

About Grace By Anthony Doerr

All My Puny Sorrows By Miriam Toews

Fire Sermon by James Quatro

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Shuggie Bain By Douglas Stuart

Singing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The French Exit By elisa gabbert

The Sisters Brothers By Patrick DeWitt

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Vegetarian By Han Kang

Some Short Stories or Collections

Corrie by Alice Munro

Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

Runaway by Alice Munro

Tenth of December by George Saunders

The Governor's Ball by Ron Calrson In the collection The News of the World

The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr

Some Nonfiction

How to Make a Slave by Jerald Walker

The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard

Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper

What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas